Translucent: AR Trace & Draw
Sketch on Paper, Light Box
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: 400 drawings, 348 step-by-step lessons, AR anchoring that pins the drawing to your paper, Kid Mode and time-lapse. Import your own photo and trace it straight away.
TRACE ANYTHING ONTO REAL PAPER. YOUR PHONE IS THE LIGHT BOX.
Hold your phone over a sheet of paper and the drawing appears on the page through the screen. Trace what you see. No printer, no carbon paper, no taping a page to a sunny window.
YOUR OWN PHOTOS ARE FREE. FOREVER.
Import any picture from your camera roll, set the opacity, trace it. The light box, zoom, rotate and your own photos are not behind a paywall and never will be. That is the whole point of the app.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick a drawing from the library, or import a photo of your own.
2. Hold your phone over your paper, or pin the drawing to the page with AR.
3. Trace the lines you see through the screen.
400 DRAWINGS, 104 OF THEM FREE
Animals, Anime, Architecture, Cartoon, Fantasy, Food, Nature, Objects, People, Tattoo and Vehicles, at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Real line art drawn for tracing, not photos run through a filter.
348 STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS
Every lesson is built out of the drawing itself: big shapes first, then structure, then detail. You watch a face or a dragon assemble one stage at a time instead of copying a finished picture and hoping.
AR ANCHORING
Pin the drawing to your paper and it stays there. Move your phone, tilt it, set it down and pick it up, and the drawing is still exactly where you left it. No more propping your phone against a coffee cup.
EVERY TOOL
- Opacity, zoom, rotate, pan
- Canvas lock, so your palm cannot knock the drawing out of line
- Hands-free mode
- Grid overlay, flip and mirror
- Contrast, brightness and colour filters for difficult light
- Torch for tracing in the dark
- Line art: turn a photo of your own into clean traceable outlines
- Layer breakdown: a drawing split into its build-up stages
- Strobe: the reference blinks off so you can see your own lines
- Practice timer and daily streaks
- Time-lapse: record a session and share it
- Kid Mode: the whole library, none of the clutter
- Works offline. No account, no sign-up.
PERFECT FOR
Artists learning proportion and perspective. Anime and manga. Tattoo artists transferring flash. Embroidery, quilting and cross-stitch patterns. Calligraphy and hand lettering. Woodworking and pyrography templates. Classroom and homeschool. Kids learning to draw. Anyone who was ever told they cannot draw.
Tracing is not cheating. Artists have traced for centuries to study proportion and build the hand-eye coordination freehand drawing needs, which is why the lessons here take a drawing apart instead of just showing you the answer.
FREE
- The light box: opacity, zoom, rotate, pan, grid, filters, torch
- Your own photos, unlimited
- 104 drawings
- 3 saved projects, 3 guided lessons, 3 strobe sessions
- Canvas lock, hands-free, AR anchoring, practice timer
- Supported by ads
PREMIUM
- All 400 drawings and all 348 lessons
- Unlimited saved projects
- Unlimited line art, layer breakdown and strobe
- Time-lapse export with no watermark
- No ads
Already bought the Premium Library? You keep it, and you will never be asked to pay again.
PREMIUM PLANS
Premium Weekly - $6.99 per week
Premium Yearly - $39.99 per year, after a 3-day free trial
Premium Lifetime - $69.99, one payment, does not renew
Prices are shown in your own currency before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is switched off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. Manage your subscription or switch off auto-renew in your device Settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://aylan-apps.com/privacy/translucent-tracing/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://aylan-apps.com/privacy/translucent-tracing/privacy-policy
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- Fixed: importing your own photos on iPhone and iPad.
- 400 drawings, 104 of them free, up from 221.
- 348 step-by-step lessons built from the drawings.
- AR anchoring pins the drawing to your paper and keeps it there.
- New: line art from your photos, layer breakdown, strobe, time-lapse.
- New: Kid Mode, saved projects, practice timer and streaks.
- Redesigned throughout, now in 31 languages.
- Faster launch, many crash fixes.
The developer, mounir tajaouart, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Provider
- mounir tajaouart
- Size
- 99.3 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 32 more
- English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Singhalese, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Lifetime USD 79.99
- Premium Weekly USD 7.99
- Premium Yearly USD 49.99
- Premium Library USD 2.99
- Copyright
- © Mounir Tajaouart
